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A plea for alms delivered in a sermon at the spital, before a solemn…A plea for almes delivered in a sermon at the spital, before a solemn…
A plea for alms delivered in a sermon at the spital, before a solemn assembly of the city, on Tuesday in Easter week, April. 13. 1658. / By Thomas Watson Minister of Stephens Walbrook. Lond.A plea for almes delivered in a sermon at the spital, before a solemn assembly of the city, on Tuesday in Easter week, April. 13. 1658. / By Thomas Watson Minister of Stephens Walbrook. Lond.
London: printed for Thomas Parkhurst, 1658
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Arg. 7 Argument 7. The examples of others who have been famous, and renowned for acts of Charity.
Arg. 7 Argument 7. The examples of others who have been famous, and renown'd for acts of Charity.
1. Our Lord Christ, a great example of Charity. He was not more full of merit than bounty. Trajan the Emperor did rend off a piece of his own robe to wrap his soldiers wounds. Christ did more, he made a medicine of his body and blood to heal us, Isaiah 53. 5. By his stripes ye are healed. Here was a pattern of Charity without a parallel.*
1. Our Lord Christ, a great example of Charity. He was not more full of merit than bounty. Trajan the Emperour did rend off a piece of his own robe to wrap his souldiers wounds. Christ did more, he made a medicine of his body and blood to heale us, Isaiah 53. 5. By his stripes ye are healed. Here was a pattern of Charity without a parallel.*
- *[Greek or Hebrew] Greg. Nyssen.〈non-Latin alphabet〉 Greg. Nyssen.
2. The Jews are noted in this kind. 'Tis a rabbinical observation, that those who live devoutly among the Jews, distribute a tenth part of their estate among